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Texas Art Teacher Certification Exam

Subjects : teaching, arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Method of painting in which the colors are mixed with egg yolk or other substances - instead of oil






2. Material used to imbed rings - bracelets - necklaces -etc when making hand-wrought jewelry






3. Printing process in which the printing plate that has raised that is rolled with ink to print.






4. French painter who was an early cubist (1881-1955) - Influences include hard sharp precision of a machine age






5. Journalist who questioned the policies of the governor of New York in the 1700's. He was jailed; he sued - and this court case was the basis for our freedom of speech and press. He was found not guilty.






6. Joining of two metals above 800F (most common) - the process of joining metal with a filler rod that melts at a temperature below the metal being joined - Uses a molten filler metal to crate joints. Capillary action is required to distribute the fill






7. A coarse - inexpensive - woven fabric; often used for making grain sacks






8. Printmaking where the design is scratched into the steel plate with a hard - steel tool






9. A print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil






10. An enameling technique in which thin wire partitions-cloisons-are filled with enamel. It is an art form practiced in ancient Byzantium






11. Creates blue dye






12. The threads running from side to side across a fabric; wool






13. An Italian movement begun shortly before and during WWI. It depicted dynamic movement and stressed the violence and speed of the Machine Age. They advocated revolution and glorified war.(Balla - Severini - Boccioni)






14. A plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder - which in turn transfers it to the paper






15. A solid screen - covered with icons - at the front of the church - dividing the sanctuary from the body of the building.






16. Application of potassium sulphide






17. Enameling technique - used more gold and less color than cloisonne. Starts with thick gold piece - cut tiny troughs wherever want color to be - gold is most prominent in end - rarely has patterns engraved.






18. Technique of ornamenting in which small grains of metal - usually gold - are soldered to a flat surface






19. A simple printmaking technique in which ink or paint is appleid to a metal or plastic plate - worked with various tools - and then printed onto paper using a press - roller - or other pressure.






20. Known for his glass sculpture






21. A matted tangle of hair or fiber






22. Wrought iron - hammered copper - painted tin NOT pewter






23. Paintings with the emphasis on inner emotions - sensations - or ideas rather than actual appearances






24. Fastening two pieces of metal together by softening with heat and applying pressure - Fusing two pieces of material using a heat process; most commonly used with metal and plastics






25. Something that supports a sculpture






26. Joining small pieces of metal together using molten metal - bonding metals and alloys that melt at temperatures below 840






27. A decorative design made of one material sewn over another






28. French Painter - who started his career as a caricaturist - then converted to landscape painting by his early mentor Boudin. From 1890 he concentrated on series of pictures in which he painted the same subject at different times of the day in differe






29. Pale green






30. A fabric-dyeing method which uses wax to coat areas that don't need to be dyed






31. A style of abstractionism popular in the 1960s - modern technique with which a painter creates optical illusions with the use of dazzling patterns - abstract art athat uses geometric shapes and vivid colors to create optical illusions - such as an il






32. Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines






33. A porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area - Roman buildings followed this Greek architectural style






34. Embroidery done in cross-stitch on fine single net






35. A water-base paint made with casein (which is a protein precipitated from milk)






36. The amount of light reflected by a hue






37. Produces a red dye - the chemical name for rust






38. A plain woven lightweight - extremely sheer - airy - and soft silk fabric - containing highly twisted filament yarns. The fabric - used mainly in evening dresses and scarves - can also be made from rayon and other manufactured fibers






39. Formed in relief by beating a metal plate from the back - leaving the impression on the face






40. Where the revolving door was fully developed






41. A structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops






42. To raise a relief design on the surface of paper through pressure-raised paper to form image - with or without ink printed






43. Italian 'light-dark'. The gradation of light and dark values in two-dimensional imagery; especially the illusion of rounded - three-dimensional form created through gradations of light and shade rather than line.






44. Which emphasized the artist's free expression of emotion - flourished in Germany in the year immediately prior to the outbreak of World War I. Georges Rouault (1871-1958) - a French painter - is regarded as this type of painter. Portrayal of reality






45. Emphasis of this architecture is on the horizontal






46. Network Interface Card; the device that enables a workstation to connect to the network and communicate with other computers.






47. The dimension of color that is determined by the wavelength of light; what we know as the color names blue - green - and so forth.






48. A coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue - stiff-finished cotton or linen used for linings of garments






49. Spanish founder of cubism; made Les Demoiselles d'Avignon to seek to create a new visual reality and provoke revolutionary upheaval; his figures are broken into large - flat planes with dislocated body parts; used African masks; very non-Western; Gue






50. Period in which stained glass windows were introduced for church decoration